HAMPTON—A man was fatally shot last night and dumped in a Hampton parking lot.

Police this morning identified the shooting victim as Travis Lamont Jones, a 21-year-old Newport News man who had lived on 23rd Street. Police spokeswoman Paula Scheck said detectives have not yet determined where the shooting took place.

Scheck said police received reports around 8:30 p.m. Monday of a man who was dumped from a silver, four-door Nissan Altima in the parking lot behind the Verizon building in the Newmarket Square shopping center, near the intersection of West Mercury Boulevard and Orcutt Avenue.

Officers found Jones suffering from a gunshot wound in the upper body. He was transported to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead at about 9:30 p.m.

The driver of the Altima is described as a black female in her 20s, wearing orange capri pants. The passenger is described as a black male in his late teens.